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March  26,  1918. 


United  States  Department  of  Agriculture, 

BUREAU  OF  BIOLOGICAL  SURVEY. 

E.  W.  Nelson,  Chief  of  Bureau, 


SERVICE  AND  REGULATORY  ANNOUNCEMENTS. 


REGULATION  FOR  THE  PROTECTION  OF  DEER  ON  CERTAIN  ISLANDS 

IN  ALASKA. 

[Effective  April  1,  1918.] 

By  virtue  of  the  authority  conferred  upon  the  Secretary  of  Agri- 
culture by  section  2  of  the  act  of  May  11,  1908  (35  Stat.,  102),  en- 
titled "An  act  to  amend  an  act  entitled  'An  act  for  the  protection  of 
game  in  Alaska,  and  for  other  purposes,'  approved  June  7,  1902," 
regulation  5  of  the  Regulations  for  the  Protection  of  Deer,  Moose, 
Caribou,  Sheep,  and  Mountain  Goats  in  Alaska,  approved  July  24, 
1916,  and  amended  July  23,  1917,  is  hereby  further  amended,  effective 
April  1,  1918,  so  as  to  read  as  follows: 

REGULATION  5.— DEER  ON  CERTAIN  ISLANDS. 

The  killing  of  deer  on  Kodiak  Island  and  Long  Island ;  on  the  following  islands  in 
southeastern  Alaska:  Duke  Island,  near  Dixon  Inlet,  Gravina  Island,  near  Ketchikan, 
Kruzof  Island,  west  of  Sitka,  San  Juan  Island  and  Suemez  Island,  near  Klawak,  and 
Zerembo  Island,  near  Wrangell;  and  on  the  islands  of  Hawkins,  Hinchinbrook,  and 
Montague,  in  Prince  William  Sound,  is  hereby  prohibited  until  August  1,  1919. 

In  testimony  whereof  I  have  hereunto  set  my  hand  and  caused  the 
seal  of  the  Department  of  Agriculture  to  be  afhxed  this  13th  day  of 
March,  1918. 

[seal.]  Clarence  Ousley, 

Acting  Secretary  of  Agriculture. 

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